To prevent prostheses from becoming contaminated with bacteria, their surface can be coated with a bacteria-killing microstructure. Moreover, this coarsening improves the adhesion of the bone to the ...
26 May 2022 is the official date of application for the Regulation 2017/746 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDR), thereby repealing the old IVD directive 98/79/EC. There are still many ...
Last September, the European Triple-A-COAT project was kicked-off by the project partners having a 2-day meeting in Leuven. The project aims to develop a bio-based nanocellulose coating platform with ...
Biomimetics or 'biomimicry' imitates principles found in nature to solve practical problems, such as modifying a surface to add certain properties to it. Thus, surfaces can be made water-repellent ...
When two surfaces move across each other, friction occurs. The strength and wear are influenced, among other things, by the roughness of these surfaces. Because of the wide variety of friction ...
An innovative technology such as ultrashort pulsed lasers (USL) can change the properties of a surface by applying a texture. In the case of friction, these modifications can influence the frictional ...
Lasers are used in different ways to cut material. New technologies such as ultrashort pulsed (USL) lasers can cut transparent materials in a new way: 'stealth dicing'. Ultrashort pulsed lasers - femtosecond lasers - also have the advantage that they don’t melt the material. The material is powdered, without heating the surrounding material. We briefly outline the technology and application.
The use of (real-time) data to adjust production processes - in machining one speaks of "adaptive machining" - is the future of production. This is made possible by the increased availability of ...
Oerlikon Balzers Coating celebrates its 30th anniversary with a four-day programme, filled with expert lectures and presentations. Sirris too will make a contribution on the added value of coatings ...
The use of bio-based materials is considered an essential contribution to sustainable design of novel composites and coatings, but critical assessment of sustainable metrics is needed for independent ...
Ultra-black surfaces are for many reasons essential to space industry. Black coatings that are used at present work well, but they have their limitations. In search for a better alternative ESA ...
